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Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath

  • From: Donovan Hill
  • Date: Wed Jan 21 03:44:51 2004 
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 12:07 am, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> > Where do the Extreme and Juniper fit into this?
>
> Juniper do not make L3-switches so they dont really compare.
>

Others have said that too, but given where Junipers are used, I think they 
sneak into the same category as the Cisco 6500/7600s and other high-end L3 
switches.

> Extreme i-plattform is currently destination ip based with inital cache
> lookup. (guess this is flow based)

I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't 
understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over 
prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?

(If this isn't appropriate on-list, then feel free to reply off-list.)

-- 
Donovan Hill
Electronics Engineering Technologist, CCNA
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